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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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Columns Archive
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15 Best Albums of 2010 (so far)
Despite the fun of tidying up a year’s worth of music listening into a concise list and orderly rankings, end... -
Dare to Do Right
Once upon a time I was called in a ward to be a service outreach coordinator for the Relief Society.... -
Offering
What offering can I leave here, in this moment — to help me remember that I am the source? -
Lamb Chop In The Sky
If a boy becomes a man and can still feel the tug of an emotion from across 40 years, one... -
Woody Allen: ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’
It would be difficult to overestimate how important the movies of Woody Allen have been in my life. That makes... -
Memories
A grateful resident presented me with a chocolate turkey, wrapped in beautiful multicolored foil. Then she looked around... -
Let My People Go
My little Stuart has a bleeding heart. He is unusually quick, I think, to identify a person or an action... -
Seminal Works — Kind of Blue
Sometimes hype is justified, Kind of Blue earns its reputation with every listen. -
Skipping Christmas
Christmas is a pretty big deal at my house. There’s nary a tradition I’ve heard that I don’t try to... -
Real Intimacy
Today, I indulged. I let my mind wander to one of my favorite fantasies. Do you want to join me?... -
Golden Slumbers
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise; Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will... -
Fahrenheit 451
Truffaut’s famous adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 begins with a strange and stern voice-over against coloured close-ups... -
A Christmas Carol
As Marley disappears in a ghostly manner out the window, Scrooge looks out the window as he goes to close... -
Celestial Attachment and Parenting
Today’s post is written by ‘Saint Maybe’, a fabulous writer. Enjoy! Buddhism teaches that the origin of suffering is... -
Banned
Some conservative religious communities build bonfires or try to get books banned from public libraries, Mormons censor themselves. -
Ms. Goodie Two-Shoes
You better watch out . . . He’s making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out Who’s naughty and... -
I Want
Happiness comes from within. It may be one of the most overused spiritual statements, and most of us would agree... -
Penelope’s List
Is the desire to be happy a human universal? Or is it just another one of those preferences that arise... -
The Visitor
I’m not a movie critic, but I do see lots of movies. I’m not picky. I’ll see a “chick flick”... -
Lunch 5- Out of the Comfort Zone
We (and our children) have had to learn to be gracious guests at both cockroach infested decrepit apartments and mansions... -
Holiday Road Trip Hell
We’ve had a few discussions here at Doves & Serpents about fear. Mel wrote about the dangers of playing it... -
Fermentation
Whilst I have lived in England I have been struck by the cross pollination of many musical genres under the... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 20
If only we could work out what Elder Uchtdorf was thinking about… aha! -
A Cast, a Quilt and an Angel
For three-year-old Wally, the cast had been a nuisance standing between him and a pirate ship in the bathtub, an... -
Get Real
Real. It’s one of my favorite four letter words. I can’t think of any better criteria for a friend –... -
A Christmas Tale
Some films leave you with a feeling that you have experienced something solid and illuminating that will stay with... -
Giving Thanks
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Home for the Holidays
“Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. That’s what the holiday is all about. Torture.” – Claudia I know... -
File Sharing
My iTunes library is an autobiography of all my relationships. There is the musical theater from my parents, the... -
Taking Up My Mat
I thought about God asking me the same question one day and decided I don’t want to be left offering... -
Crazy all of the time
A friend of mine recently said, “None of us gets the luxury of being independent of our context.” As much... -
Device
Birthdays are a natural time to put one’s current moment into the perspective of history. This past week I’m realizing... -
Revolutionary Road
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What if God Were One of Us?
We try to equalize as much as possible, because I know that’s how God sees us. There is not... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 19
Tommy’s always been a one for cheerful status updates. -
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?” I’ve been asked this question many times. The first few... -
Seminal Works — Gilead
This meditative novel is an examination of faith, humanity and the unbearable beauty of everyday life; it is impossible to... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 18
Elijah Abel sees something unexpected on Brigham’s ‘feed’… -
Not Dead Yet
I’ve come to believe I must be half Mormon-girl, half rebel. I’m a sucker for a theme, a central idea... -
The Places That Scare You
“Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached... -
Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living
The opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a... -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
We all occasionally construct protective layers around our emotions, convinced that forgetting will negate the trouble of pain, the complications... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 17
It’s an apostle. It’s a vegetable. It’s a heavenly combination! -
To Hear and Be Heard
Departing from the standard brief personal essay, today I’d like to introduce you all to my friend Allison Mitchell, founder... -
Care to join me for guitar practice, anyone?
But when you have three kids who all have to be in three different places at the same time, the... -
Being Awesome
You cannot try to be awesome, you must be awesome….that is the law of awesome -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 16
William Law is ‘linking’ to the Expositor. -
Enough is enough
Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken... -
Top 10 Principles of Happiness That I was Never taught at Church
1. Don’t believe everything you think. Putting aside all past conditioning — if that’s even possible – ask yourself, “Who... -
A Man of Letters
Everything I have learned about God is written in a book. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine how my worldview...